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Ontario Library Association Super Conference presentation: If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Some librarian job search advice
Posted by John Dupuis on January 31, 2013 Some colleagues and I are presenting tomorrow at the latest Ontario Library Association Super Conference. Here’s the info: Session: #1307: Friday 3:45 PM 5:00 PM IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW Career development Speaker(s) John Dupuis, Acting Associate University Librarian, Information Services, York University; Tanis Fink, Director, Seneca Libraries, Seneca College; Amanda French,…
Welcome to Yet Another Science Blogging Community: Phenomena!
Posted by John Dupuis on December 18, 2012 Yes, the science blogging community has certainly seen some gyrations in the last few years with a bunch of new networks sprouting up, sometimes from the ashes of other networks, sometimes completely on their own. The latest is Phenomena: A science salon hosted by National Geographic magazine. Phenomena is a gathering of spirited science writers…
Recent Presentations: Getting Your Science Online and Evaluating Information
Posted by John Dupuis on November 9, 2012 As I mentioned way back on October 22nd, I was kindly invited to give a talk at the Brock University Physics Department as part of their seminar series. The talk was on Getting Your Science Online, a topic that I’m somewhat familiar with! Since it was coincidentally Open Access Week, I did kind of an…
Getting Your Science Online: Presentation at Brock University Physics Department
Posted by John Dupuis on October 22, 2012 It seems that Brock University in St. Catherine’s, Ontario really likes me. Two years ago, the Library kindly invited me to speak during their Open Access Week festivities. And this year the Physics Department has also very kindly invited me to be part of their Seminar Series, also to talk about Getting Your Science Online,…
Friday Fun: You Are Not a Social Media Jedi, Ninja, Sherpa, or Guru
Posted by John Dupuis on August 17, 2012 Personally, I aspire to being a Social Media Smurf. Check out this amusing yet pointed post by Eric Stoller: You Are Not a Social Media Jedi, Ninja, Sherpa, or Guru. A little taste: They are everywhere. On Twitter profiles, blog bios, and Facebook pages across the social media sphere, inflated social media titles are rampant.…
Friday Fun: 10 Best Books on the Future of Higher Ed
Posted by John Dupuis on August 3, 2012 This one is a little less on the strictly amusing side and a little more on the useful and thoughtful side for a Friday Fun post, but sometimes it’s worth mixing things up a bit. I’ve mostly not read these books myself but I am in the middle of the Christensen/Eyring book right now. And…
Welcome to Information Culture, the latest blog at Scientific Amerincan
Posted by John Dupuis on May 10, 2012 I’d like to extend a huge science librarian blogosphere welcome to Information Culture, the newest blog over at Scientific American Blogs! This past Sunday evening I got a cryptic DM from a certain Bora Zivkovic letting me know that I should watch the SciAm blog site first thing Monday morning. I was busy that morning…
Friday Fun: How much of a Klouchebag are you?
Posted by John Dupuis on April 27, 2012 Klout is kind of evil. Basically, it’s the impact factor for the Web, where this random company uses a mysterious algorithm to quantify and rank people’s standing on social media — Twitter, Facebook, etc. There’s been some interesting commentary about it on teh interwebs these lasts few days, such as It’s terrifying how important your…
Reading Diary: Marketing for Scientists by Marc J. Kuchner
Posted by John Dupuis on April 11, 2012 It’s probably best to start with what Marc J. Kuchner’s new book — Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times — isn’t. It isn’t a social media jackass recipe book for “Success through Twitter.” It isn’t a detailed treatise on marketing theory. It doesn’t come with a guarantee of grants, publications and prizes…
Penguin ebooks & The Research Works Act: Publishers gain, communities lose
Posted by John Dupuis on February 13, 2012 I was really angry riding home on the bus last Friday night. Not angry because the transit system here in Toronto is royally fudged in general or that transit to York University is fudged in particular. No, it wasn’t that particular aspect of the public sphere that had me upset. It was the growing tendency…
